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  •  1931  Broadcasting started in 1931 as a a state monopoly operated by the Thai government. Originally, there were four broadcasting stations: Thai National Broadcasting Station and the experimental stations of the Post and Telegraph Department, the Military Signal Corps, and the Territorial Army. The National now the Broadcasting Station, under the Government Publicity Department Public Relations Department (PRD) - operated a medium-wave Thai service, a medium-wave experimental station, and a short-wave overseas service (see Rowland 1973, pp. 4-5).

  •  1938  The PRD is entrusted with the coordination of broadcasting policy. The National Broadcasting Station is financed by government grants and advertising revenues. Originally, income from receiver licenses ten cents per receiver - went to to the government.

  •  1952   The radio license fee was lifted on the assumption that broadcasting is a free service to the public.

  •  1955 — the Committee of Radio Broadcasting and Communication of Thailand National Board of Broadcasting. One of the committee's first acts was to to recommend in 1966 the banning of all commercial advertising from stations operated by the PRD 

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  • Building the Burma-Siam Railway

    In the memoir "Building the Burma-Siam RailwayTalk," a former prisoner recounts the brutal conditions endured while constructing the railway for the Japanese. The prisoners faced harsh working conditions, including being pelted with iron rivets by a Japanese engineer and working in non-stop downpours during the monsoon season. Cholera outbreaks, lack of proper clothing, and extreme exhaustion from long work shifts further compounded their suffering. Despite the high death rates and disease ravaging the crowded camps, the Japanese enforced a speedup of work, neglecting to address the epidemic. The prisoners endured meager rations and slept in leaky, overcrowded huts.   More »
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  • Tom Harrisson

    Major Tom Harnett Harrisson, DSO OBE (26 September 1911 – 16 January 1976) was a British polymath. In the course of his life he was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, museum curator, archaeologist, documentarian, film-maker, conservationist and writer. Although often described as an anthropologist, and sometimes referred to as the "Barefoot Anthropologist", his degree studies at University of Cambridge, before he left to live in Oxford, were in natural sciences. He was a founder of the social observation organisation Mass-Observation. He conducted ornithological and anthropological research in Sarawak (1932) and the New Hebrides (1933–35), spent much of his life in Borneo (mainly Sarawak) and finished up in the US, the UK and France, before dying in a road accident in Thailand. (Wikipedia)   More »
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